
In the past, Lucene recorded only the bare minimal aggregate index
statistics necessary to support its
hard-wired classic
vector space scoring...
0 replies - 6803 views - 03/15/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Many users don't appreciate the transactional semantics of Lucene's
APIs and how this can be useful in search applications. For starters, Lucene...
1 replies - 5488 views - 03/02/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Apache Lucene is the leading open source search engine and is used in
many businesses, projects and products. Lucene has sub-projects which
provide...
0 replies - 7032 views - 02/28/12 by Robin Bramley in Articles

Yonik recently wrote about “Advanced Filter Caching in Solr” where
he talked about expensive and custom filters; it was left as an
exercise to the...
0 replies - 5381 views - 02/23/12 by Erik Hatcher in Articles

A very handy new feature called query time joining is coming to Lucene sooner than anticipated. While it was confirmed last month that it would be in Lucene...
0 replies - 5510 views - 02/11/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Learn about the controversy that emerged in the early days of the Java 7 GA release because of the effect it had on Apache Lucene - from the perspective of Uwe...
3 replies - 10546 views - 02/03/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Today, Lucid Imagination releases LucidWorks Cloud, a SaaS version of their LucidWorks Enterprise platform, for general availability. For those of you not in...
0 replies - 4222 views - 02/01/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Mark your calendars today! The largest worldwide conference dedicated to Lucene and Solr will take place in...
0 replies - 10193 views - 02/01/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of
Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer
to Project...
0 replies - 7097 views - 01/30/12 by Jason Hull in Articles

This talk will show how the relevance of search results can be
improved by using morphological analysis and named entity recognition.
After briefly...
0 replies - 5017 views - 01/27/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

DynamoDB certainly isn't the only NoSQL store in the cloud. Neo4j's recent release of version 1.6 now has a public beta for hosting your graph databases in...
2 replies - 4294 views - 01/25/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The following is written with Solr users in mind, but the principles apply to Lucene users as well.
I really dislike the so called “Boolean Operators”...
1 replies - 4718 views - 01/24/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

The free Solr Reference Guide published by Lucid Imagination has been updated to 3.5 - the current release version of Solr
and Lucene. The changes weren't...
2 replies - 4801 views - 01/23/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

In
my last
post I described a known limitation
of BlockJoinQuery: it joins in only one direction (from
child to parent documents). This can be a problem...
0 replies - 2947 views - 01/18/12 by Michael Mccandless in Tips and Tricks

Description of Archive-It, the Internet Archive's subscription,
self-serve web archiving service, focused on the full-text search
system. With nearly 200...
0 replies - 4032 views - 01/12/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos